Actually living as Social Desirability Bias asks is very difficult, but merely pretending to live like that is relatively easy. You remember Newsom because he was caught, but lots of people don't get caught.
Some demagogues are immune from calls of hypocrisy such as the jet-setting Justin Trudeau spreading his climate hysteria all over the globe. His "progressive" coalition majority gives him immunity from reality and reason. He will eventually be gone but likely for the wrong reasons.
One reason freedom is more persuasive than "prosperity, fun, and convenience" is because those other interests have normal value, but freedom (in addition to ideological, cultural, and psychological appeal) also has option value, whether or not you decide to exercise it in the future, similar to the value of an option in finance. This value puts it on a whole other level. Or, at least it used to. I suppose the feeling of status and power from dominating and bullying the bad-thinkers of the population into compliance also has high value for many people.
What does it mean to say that humanity is “doomed”? That we will go extinct? Well of course, but better politicians won’t help that - eventually the universe will rip itself apart (if our knowledge of cosmology is basically right) and that will be that. Or do you mean by “doomed” that our best days are behind us? I don’t think there is much evidence of that. Humanity has existed for a few 100k years or so. In the last .3% of our existence, we have seen incredible progress on virtually every measure of well being. In the last 50, there has been an incredible inflection driving well being to unheard of heights. I find it hard to believe we are going to suddenly crash. Not impossible of course, but I don’t see much evidence pointing that way.
In sweden there was also sometimes a lot of claims of hypocrisy against some leaders that said they were for diversity, but wouldn’t move to a super immigrant laden neighboorhood.
Ive never understood personally why people find those claims potent but they seem to do
In Canada, "freedom" is, apparently, a hwhite supremacist dog hwhistle.
I wonder what the social science of hypocrisy is
Phariseenomics
Phariseeconomics?
oh i had no idea about that! thanks
Actually living as Social Desirability Bias asks is very difficult, but merely pretending to live like that is relatively easy. You remember Newsom because he was caught, but lots of people don't get caught.
The worst part is the hypocrisy.
Some demagogues are immune from calls of hypocrisy such as the jet-setting Justin Trudeau spreading his climate hysteria all over the globe. His "progressive" coalition majority gives him immunity from reality and reason. He will eventually be gone but likely for the wrong reasons.
One reason freedom is more persuasive than "prosperity, fun, and convenience" is because those other interests have normal value, but freedom (in addition to ideological, cultural, and psychological appeal) also has option value, whether or not you decide to exercise it in the future, similar to the value of an option in finance. This value puts it on a whole other level. Or, at least it used to. I suppose the feeling of status and power from dominating and bullying the bad-thinkers of the population into compliance also has high value for many people.
I think it might be that “freedom”
is a “sacred” value in the USA, in the Robin Hansen sense.
Rx Mockitol. 👍 Is that available in time-release. QID is tiresome
Imagine it were the other way round though. What if a politician advocated for the right policy while hypocritically not abiding by it themselves?
I mean this just shows how humanity is doomed and how voters are irrational.
What does it mean to say that humanity is “doomed”? That we will go extinct? Well of course, but better politicians won’t help that - eventually the universe will rip itself apart (if our knowledge of cosmology is basically right) and that will be that. Or do you mean by “doomed” that our best days are behind us? I don’t think there is much evidence of that. Humanity has existed for a few 100k years or so. In the last .3% of our existence, we have seen incredible progress on virtually every measure of well being. In the last 50, there has been an incredible inflection driving well being to unheard of heights. I find it hard to believe we are going to suddenly crash. Not impossible of course, but I don’t see much evidence pointing that way.
In sweden there was also sometimes a lot of claims of hypocrisy against some leaders that said they were for diversity, but wouldn’t move to a super immigrant laden neighboorhood.
Ive never understood personally why people find those claims potent but they seem to do